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rights. The following provision appears in the Transvaal 
letters patent of December 6. 1906 — 
LIT. (1)—(a) There shall be established in the Colony on 
the appointed day (as hereinafter defined) a Board, to be 
called the Transvaal Land Settlement Board, for the purpose 
of exercising and discharging, in respect of the lands herein- 
after mentioned and the persons in occupation of them, the 
rights and duties conferred and imposed upon the Govern- 
ment of the Colony or any Member thereof by any law of the 
Colony or by any Agreement between such persons and the 
Government. 
(b) The Board shall be a Body Corporate, and shall 
consist of three Members, resident in the Colony, one of whom 
shall be Chairman. The Chairman and Members of the said 
Board shall be appointed by the Governor, and shall hold 
office during his pleasure, and be paid such salaries as he 
may determine. 
If any vacancy arises on the Board, the Governor shall 
appoint some other person residing in the Colony to fill such 
vacancy. 
(c) It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint, at such 
salaries as he may determine, such officers as may be neces- 
sary to assist the Board in carrying out the purposes for 
which it is established, and to make rules and regulations— 
(1) For the proper discharge by the Board and the afore- 
said officers of the duties imposed on them ; 
(2) For the proceedings of the said Board ; 
{3) For the proper keeping of and auditing of the accounts 
of the said Board. 
(2)~—(a) There shall, on the appointed day, be transferred, 
without payment of transfer duty, stamp duty, or registration 
charges in the Deeds Office of the Colony, to and in the name 
of the Board and for the purposes aforesaid, such of Our 
lands in the Colony as are on the appointed day held by 
settlers on the conditions prescribed in the Ordinance of the 
Colony intituled ‘The Settlers’ Ordinance, 1902 ’, or by 
settlers to whom advances have been made out of such 
portion of the loan authorized under the Ordinance of the 
Colony intituled the ‘ Transvaal Guaranteed Loan Ordinance, 
1903”, as has been allocated to land settlement in the Colony. 
(b) There shall further be transferred, on the appointed 
day, to the Board for the aforesaid purposes, all movable 
property vested in the Government of the Colony and used 
in connexion with the said lands, and all rights and obliga-